Google Told Me I Had A Virus...

moldboy

Nov 24 2005, 04:24 PM

I was at school and got this message...

It's only ever happened at school, and only on google print, Odd.

assafassaf

Nov 24 2005, 04:37 PM

I didn't really understand what's written there, but I'm sure that was just a joke.

serverph

Nov 24 2005, 05:49 PM

QUOTE(moldboy @ Nov 25 2005, 12:24 AM)

I was at school and got this message...

It's only ever happened at school, and only on google print, Odd.

you should advise your school administrators about that, just to be on the safe side. PCs in a network environment are particularly prone to such problems. let them figure out what's really wrong.

ameribass

Nov 24 2005, 06:39 PM

Very interesting. It may be a possibility that the computers at your school have been requesting such a vast amount of information that it set off a red flag on google's servers. Since they want to protect their bandwidth and all, they probably put a temporary block on your school's ip address and tell the user that it is a virus or spyware as most people wouldn't understand the concept of bandwidth and all other important things that are associated with running and maintaining a website of such rank as google.

moldboy

Nov 24 2005, 06:52 PM

QUOTE

I didn't really understand what's written there, but I'm sure that was just a joke.

I doubt that, google has made a lot of jokes in the past (G.C.H.E.E.S.E, Google Gupl, Pigion Rank to name just a few) but I doubt that they would joke about spyware/virus.

QUOTE

It may be a possibility that the computers at your school have been requesting such a vast amount of information that it set off a red flag on google's servers

Now that's what I thought, but it only ever happens when I tried google print, that is print.google.ca, and when I tried print.google.com I got a simmilar error except without the enter the following word thing. But our school has less then 120 students, and our division (same IP address I believe) has less then 2000 people.

DreamCore

Nov 24 2005, 07:01 PM

Well thats an wierd message, I think that its a joke too. But anyway try to show that to your school administrator. And its first time I see that google gives out virus messages. Are you sure that you are viewing the real google. Beacuse the real google site is google.com
And to be more sure, try to see if it is only on yours computer and not enybody elses.

Hope that you can fix that problem, wich I think you will do ofcourse.

moldboy

Nov 24 2005, 08:58 PM

yes the real google site is google.com and print.google.com is a real subdomain of google.com that just so happens is now redirected to book.google.com or books.google.com, I can't remember.

Razor

Nov 24 2005, 09:11 PM

Lol thats quite funny, i wouldnt say it would be a joke..cus im sure google have registered almost every major domain thing there is...
but its not a surprise your school computers could have spyware....the computers in my school always had spyware in them , and they were so insecure..you could delete the whole school network through microsoft frontpage..

therequiemgirls

Nov 30 2005, 02:38 AM

QUOTE(Razor @ Nov 24 2005, 04:11 PM)

hmm i think it might have been a joke.

or not. =/ check with your school to get a virus detecter

pacslim

Dec 3 2005, 12:25 AM

I had precisely the same, so it's no joke.
It's something google shows when like they say suspect ur connection to submit alotta data at once 2 google this could be spy ware or and ad ware use a scanner to remove it google does this to congirm ur a human no machine and ask u to retype a code its true really not joke !

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Goth_Punk

Jul 28 2006, 01:00 PM

Im very sorry 2 say this but google has issues!!

Dooga

May 31 2006, 02:59 AM

It's not a joke, I've seen it before. Just refresh the page. Problem solved.

I doubt you have a virus, perhaps your browser is requesting the page too quick, and Google doesn't like too many requests

wariorpk

May 30 2006, 08:05 PM

Google did not really say that you had a virus. They were just saying that someone in your area sent too many searches more or less. Do not worry about it. I have gotten this message before and I run full scans with my whole bad file destruction arsenal and there was nothing. Scan to be safe if you are at home but if not just wait a minute or so and try again.

uiop

May 30 2006, 07:06 PM

I've gotten this message before AT HOME! I have no idea how that happened because I didn't have a virus, but from what I've read the previous posters are correct:
If Google sees to many requests coming from one IP address then they will require you to enter a code that a virus couldn't read to continue using their service. They do this to keep a clear network line and limit DDOSing.

trace-uk

May 30 2006, 05:01 PM

Yeah, they're just trying to avoid spammers. your netwrok probobly uses google alot and if there's enough traffic then google will try you out from time to time.

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